Samia al-Amoudi (Arabic: ساميه العمودي) is a Saudi Arabian
obstetrician
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and
gynecologist
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,
Healthcare
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activist and professor. She is the head of the Sheikh
Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in
breast cancer
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. She is best known for her work in raising breast cancer awareness, after diagnosing herself with the disease. She is also the first woman from the
Gulf Cooperation Council
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to sit on the
Union for International Cancer Control
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UICC was founded in 1933 and is based i ...
board.
Life and career
In 1981, Al-Amoudi was among the first doctors to graduate from the medical college in King Abdulaziz University.
In April 2006, she diagnosed herself with breast cancer, for which she underwent chemotherapy.
She was the first Saudi woman to write publicly about her experience of the disease, which she did in a series of articles in a weekly column in the Al Madinah newspaper. She also appeared on a daily TV show.
In March 2007, she was presented with an inaugural
International Women of Courage Award
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by
Condoleezza Rice
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of the
United States Department of State
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.
In 2010, she was ranked fifth on the Power 100 list, which is Arabian Business's annual listing of the world's most influential Arabs.
Al-Amoudi was also later ranked by Arabian Business, as 37th in 2015 and 66th in 2016 of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women 2016 - Healthcare & Science".
Since 2012, the year she completed her cancer treatment, she has served as head of the Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in breast cancer and scientific chair for breast cancer at KAU, Jeddah Saudi Arabia, and serves as GE Healthcare's #GetFit Ambassador.
Al-Mahoudi serves as CEO of Sheikh Mohammed Hussien Al-Amoudi Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer, is the Scientific breast cancer chair, a member of the BHGI steering committee, and an associate professor and consultant obstetrician gynecologist, at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Works
* '' Breast Cancer, Break the Silence'', 2007.
References
Further reading
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External links
Samia Al-Amoudi's blogSamia Al-Amoudi's Twitter
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Living people
Saudi Arabian gynaecologists
Saudi Arabian obstetricians
Saudi Arabian women medical doctors
1957 births
Recipients of the International Women of Courage Award